whole story

noun

: all the facts : everything

They failed to tell us the whole story.

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One of his final acts was to record the whole story in his memoirs. —

Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024 Read the whole story Pipeline & Deal Updates Pain Management: The FDA has approved Roxybond, an oxycodone pill from Protega Pharmaceuticals that has been designed to prevent crushing, cutting or other forms of manipulation to mitigate the risk of it being abused. —

Alex Knapp, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 While there’s nothing wrong with telling friends everything that’s going on, when folks ask for an update, there’s rarely an expectation of the whole story. —

R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024 Consider California, which accounts for more than a third of EVs in the U.S. Climate-conscious liberals in San Francisco may be seeking out EVs, but that’s not the whole story. —

Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for whole story